Happy Valentine's Day. Last night I posted two comics. One for Magical Misfits and one for Magical Misfits gallery. They were set to go live today 14 February 2010. I went to bed. When I got up this morning I decided to check for comments. Both strips had disappeared. I quickly reloaded them and went to work. I just peeked at them and I found that the gallery has four comments dated 13 Feb 2010. They are four commenters who have never commented on my comics before and their comments don't seem to have anything to do with the picture. My gallery gets few comments and visits on it's best day. I'm wondering if the Duck is having some problems? How can I have comments dated the day before I posted?

I just stopped by Danielle Dark and he too lost a strip last night. One that had already been commented on!

Well the duck's been screwed up for a while now but that I think could just be different timezones? I'm predicting that the timezone option is messed up and isn't showing the time it was posted in your zone but the time it was posted in theirs. Does that make sense?

I supposed that's possible but I am in Alaska They would have had to be in Samoa I think to still be in the 13th. Also the comments are not mine and It does not explain what happened to the two strips I posted and well as Jay's over at Danielle Dark. I think this glitch is new.

The site being restored from an earlier copy makes perfect sense given what happened to me: on Wednesday, I skipped my update, so I posted a page offering an apology to the people that follow my comic. Last night, I went to upload my page for today, and so I deleted the apology notice.

When I logged on this morning, the page I uploaded wasn't there, but the notice I deleted – and its comments – were.

I'm just a generic member so I haven't a clue what goes on behind the scenes, but seeing as something I removed was suddenly restored, it makes perfect sense. It seems like things are under control, but, yeah, it wasn't just disappearing pages in my case >>;

Two of my updates from last night were gone today too. I'm okay with uploading them again. I just don't want this to be a persistent problem! If it deletes the re-uploads I may be a little annoyed. Do we have any info on why it happened?

Just some observations I've made, if it might help sove the problem(s): I've noticed that at least once a day, the site itself seems to go down entirely (that is comics and forums can't be accessed; although maybe this is just happening to me), which seems to last anywhere from 15-45 minutes. As far as I can tell, this has been happening ever since the problem started. Is it possible that the site is, for whatever reason, being restored from an earlier state at set intervals (like once a day)? I've also noticed that, as far as I can tell, most comics (at least the one's I've read) that use the auto-update feature haven't had their pages deleted, although the comments and author's notes might disappear regardless (this happened to a page on my comic that went live on Sunday). I also saw that after the last time the site went down (which, for me, was earlier today), several forum threads also completely disappeared when the site came back up; namely two threads that were in this section (Extermination Station) of the forums list.

Oddly, I had this happen to a Saturday manual update, where the page disappeared, then reappeared with all the comments intact. The Sunday manual update I've re-upped three times now, and has failed to stick. The latest drop happened after the site went down today.

CZweigThe site being restored from an earlier copy makes perfect sense given what happened to me: on Wednesday, I skipped my update, so I posted a page offering an apology to the people that follow my comic. Last night, I went to upload my page for today, and so I deleted the apology notice.

When I logged on this morning, the page I uploaded wasn't there, but the notice I deleted – and its comments – were.

I'm just a generic member so I haven't a clue what goes on behind the scenes, but seeing as something I removed was suddenly restored, it makes perfect sense. It seems like things are under control, but, yeah, it wasn't just disappearing pages in my case >>;

i had approximately 24 pages set on auto update today, and just now i notice they're not even there anymore, same as a page i uploaded to my comic Nectar of the gods, seems to be gone What the heck's going on!!

The liquid creations of Gods passed down to man, but sometimes an object of the gods' realm can cause chaos in the mortal realm. Read Nectar of the Gods!

Yes, it's very, very,very annoying, most especially because it KEEPS on fucking happening.and a lot of user time and effort in uploading pages, writing author comments, posting in the forums, PQs to people, posting reader comments is totally going to waste over and over again.

This is unacceptable.

It's not even a bug, it's just our programmer working on the site trying to get something right and in the mean time it's screwing around with the work of a couple of thousand people.

mattboy115Here's a great idea! Some may not agree with me but here goes.

The trouble is that these “fixes” seem to happen at random, we've no idea when it will be over, we've also no way of making every single person aware that this is what's happening- so people will still update.It also affects the forums, PQs, reader comments, every single thing on the site.

I've suggested to the Plat team that they cease work completely and just do another freeze over the weekend or something like all those other times. That's annoying, but atleast then we wouldn't keep loosing everything every few hours.

I Am The 1337 MasterMaybe we should all just not use the site for a while. A newspost telling people to not use anything and log out. Could that help more?

No, since only a tiny proportion of people who use DD ever read news posts because they're always hidden in a teeny easily ignorable link on the right of the screen and an easily missed News link at the top of the page.

That was why even though we warned people in news posts that the site was going to freeze over a weekend and then come back on the Monday, we still had constant PQs asking us what had happened and constant posts in the forums afterwards wondering about it too. Each time it happened. T_T

So no, that wouldn't work. Even freezes cause disruptions but at least people wouldn't loose so much stuff.

KDogDo I take it that Platinum just kind of brushes off our pleas and does whatever they please?

No, They can just take a while to get back since Skool and I are on different time zones to the Platinum offices.We've received a sincere apology and a full explanation.

Apparently this problem is over now and won't be ongoing any longer.The missing content was due to the programmer doing live copies of data currently in use on the old server across to the new one. Even after the big changes a lot of the database was still running from the old server.

—————If you notice any problems related to this ON-going after this date, PLEASE report them all here!

The only other issue I'm aware of that's related directly is the PQ notification issue, which I've also reported.

“I kinda flipped out about this below…I don't think all the bug errors are done. I clicked on the recent most quote from my comic Pwnd Randomness after it said the pages I updated two days ago were gone but that quote was still there. I got this (Image is kinda too big for forums):”http://www.drunkduck.com/Pwnd_Randomness/gfx/quote%20error.PNG